PowerPoint 2016 Tutorials and Conversations on Presentation Summit

A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford holds a Master’s degree in New Media and is the owner of Echosvoice, a
PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and cleanup, and training for large and
small corporate clients. In this conversation, Echo talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Sections in PowerPoint is a feature that lets you organize slides into segments or divisions for easier management. For instance, if you have
many slides, you may find the content difficult to handle, edit, or even deliver. And if you have a few slides, even then you may have the need
to organize them logically in Sections. The Section option within PowerPoint 2016 enables you to divide your presentation slides into logical
parts.

You have a 5-minute video or audio clip playing on your slide. And exactly after the clip has played for 30 seconds, you want some text to appear
superimposed over the video clip. Alternatively, you may want to show other objects on the slide while your audio clip is playing. All this while,
the original audio or video clip should continue playing. How do you achieve this result?

In 1788, Richard Austin created Bell, a serif typeface for the British Letter Foundry. Since then, this typeface went through an amazing
journey. The typeface faded after its initial popularity with newspaper and magazine printers. Bell did find more favor in the United States during
the 19th and the 20th centuries, and it was revived in 1931 by Monotype Corporation. Bell MT became a popular typeface, right up there along with
Baskerville and Bodoni. Bell MT also made the transition from analog to digital. It gained popularity and wide acceptance when Microsoft bundled Bell
MT as part of its Microsoft Office installations.

Doug Thomas used to review movies and rent you--or your parents--VHS tapes. After working a few months at Microsoft, he had
an idea to get other people to create videos about Office. That idea turned into a new job of creating videos and training content for
Support.Office.com including the Office 15-Minute Webinars and his current series, Doug from Office. However, none of his videos are on VHS. In
this conversation, Doug talks about his session at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Business presentations are infamous for being incredibly boring and I am sure that you must know a few boring presenters personally. You might
be skeptical about it but a business presentation can be made interesting with the use of audio-visuals, graphics and let’s not forget you, and
your awesome personal style.

When you select an inserted audio clip in PowerPoint 2016, you see two contextual Audio Tools tabs: Format and Playback. Once you explore the
options within the Format tab, you'll wonder why there are options to adjust, arrange, resize, and apply picture styles. Also, why does
PowerPoint provide picture format options for an audio clip? That's because an audio clip is represented by a sound icon. When you select the
sound icon, the Player Controls bar is activated. Clearly, there’s so much to explore and learn.

Julie Terberg is an internationally recognized presentation expert. She is the owner of Terberg Design, a Microsoft
PowerPoint MVP, and a director of the Presentation Guild. Julie enjoys sharing knowledge and ideas with the presentation community and presents a
monthly webinar, "Inspired by Design," exclusively for Presentation Guild members. She is passionate about designing visuals that help presenters
better communicate with their audiences. In this conversation, Julie talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in
Clearwater Beach, FL.

The average salesperson spends way too much time managing presentations of all sorts, including proposal, sales, training and financial
presentations. In this post, we’ll help you learn how your organization can streamline presentation management and reclaim thousands of
hours—increasing your team’s effectiveness and boosting your bottom line. Some key ideas we’ll discuss are: Salespeople spend 31% of their time
every week tracking down and updating content and other sales collateral. This is an outdated approach which prevents organizations from reaching
their full potential. By using modern presentation management solutions, organizations can help their sales teams reclaim upwards of 50 hours
each month.

Once you insert an audio clip into your presentation, you may find that it is too long, or there may be parts in the clip that you don't want
the audiences to hear. Or, maybe you just need a small bit to play, like the sound of that trumpet blowing! Although you can scrub the clip using
the Player Controls bar to ascertain where you want the clip to begin and end, that option may become monotonous and inaccurate. Additionally, it
also looks very unprofessional if you try scrubbing an audio clip right in front of your audience. Fortunately, PowerPoint's Trim Audio option
can make this easy for you. Follow these steps to explore how you can trim an audio clip right inside PowerPoint 2016.

Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions
of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its
15th season as the most prominent learning event for the presentation community. Away from the conference, he regularly leads private workshops
within organizations. In this conversation, Rick talks about his sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is an internationally-recognized data visualization and design expert. She has trained future data
nerds worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops, for clients including Time, Adobe, Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for
Research, Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institute, and the United Nations. She writes a popular blog on data-presentation at
StephanieEvergreen.com. Her book, Effective Data Visualization, was published in Spring 2016.

In this conversation, Stephanie discusses her other book, Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, just
published in its second edition in June 2017. Both books hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists.

Insert an audio file within your PowerPoint slide, and choose to play it either with a click or set it to play automatically. Whichever option
you choose, some files can sound loud and unexpected! Have you not experienced the sudden scare or shock when a shrill voice interrupts an almost
silent environment? Rather than shake the soul of your audiences, you can use PowerPoint's fade options to add a gradual increase in the volume
of your audio files. PowerPoint provides both Fade In and Fade Out effects that you can add to the beginning and end of your audio clips. These
fade options make your audio clips sound smoother and more subtle.

One such scenario in which Morph can be used is with slide backgrounds rather than slide objects in the foreground. Now PowerPoint does not
allow you to animate slide backgrounds, but Morph is technically not an animation, it’s a transition! Even then, you can use faux backgrounds (a
full slide image placed beneath all other slide objects, but still over the slide background) to cook up some magic.

Handmade Slides: Pushpins for PowerPoint

These “pushpin” graphics are already placed in PowerPoint slides. Just copy them and paste within your slides to create a look that makes a picture, shape, or anything else appear as if it has been pushed onto a surface, board, or wall with a pin!
These ready-made pushpins are already within PowerPoint slides, and have been provided in five colors. Just copy them and paste them on your slides.